Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#1
A family at Capel are planning to bury the body of the mother of the family in the back garden of their semi, neighbours are not happy, how would you feel if it was happening next door to you?
Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#2
is that legal, i would have thought that the local council would have to be notified and be assured that pubic health issues are all o.k?
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#3
"A body comes within the definition of "clinical waste" and as such cannot be disposed of except under the provisions of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 and the Environment Protection Act 1990."
From...
http://www.gardenlaw.co.uk/gardenburial.htmlIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#4
The Environment Agency says that no laws prevent people being buried in their own garden, but an authorisation form must be filled in, since decomposing corpses can pose a health risk to the living.
A garden grave must be situated more than 10 metres from standing water, at least 50 metres away from a drinking water source, and be deep enough to dissuade foxes from digging up the dearly departed.
It's also necessary to record the whereabouts of the grave and include this in the deeds of the property.
Audere est facere.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#5
Didn't taxi driver Terry Lee bury his wife in the garden of his council house in Coombe Valley Road?
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
#6
Indeed. And I wouldn't have a problem with it at all, and don't really see what all the indignation is about. There are many worse things lurking beneath the sod! And it is rather charming that someone wants to rest where they lived.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#7
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#8
Yes he did Terry. Mr Lee was living up at Westbury Rd, with his family same time as I was years ago.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#9
I wouldn't have a problem with it if I knew it was there. It's when the dig up ones that people don't know about it's worrying
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#10
most of us bury our pets in the garden we do not need permission for it(unless they are still alive of course), would be a similar hazard if close to a water course.
#11
We have a bloody greyhound, two cats a hamster and a fish in ours. They were all dead at the time of burial in case you were wondering.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#12
Pets are more of a hazard because few people dig a grave six feet deep which is the required depth for a human burial. Many shallow pet graves are dug up by foxes within a matter of days.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
#13
The fish had a spectacular 6 foot deep 2 inch wide plot. Please don't believe me.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#14
As I rescue birds I have several deceased ones buried in a small area of my garden (along with one of our own pet birds.) They have an angel statue watching over them and little name sticks (every rescue bird that doesn't make it has to be given a name before it's buried.) I have to confess that the cemetery where my parents are buried has a couple of their beloved birds buried behind them - shhhhhhhhh!
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#15
From Monty Python:-
Premise: Busy? I just spent four hours burying the cat.
Conclusion: *Four hours* to bury a cat?
Premise: Yes - it wouldn't keep still.
Conclusion: Oh - it wasn't dead, then?
Premise: No, no - but it's not at all well, so as we were going to be on the safe side.
Happy days.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
#16
was there not a family near buckland that buried there mother in the back garden not far from Guzzler
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#17
yes alan that was terry lee,who lives up coomde vally road near the roundabout.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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#18
I believe one can deposit a loved one's ashes in one's garden without any permission; an old friend, now herself deceased, buried her husband's ashes in his rose garden.
Some years later the house was sold and the new owners built a conservatory over the rose garden.
No problem, they don't know.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#19
I would have no problem if my neighbour decided to do the same, the problem comes when the house is to be sold. Who would want some complete stranger buried in their garden.
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#20
I suppose the fact is we probably already have several! People have died, been buried, dug up, whatever, all over the place and we don't know. These old houses in Dover - my old Victorian included - have probably had people die in them several times over. Not died several times, several people, you know what I mean! But life goes on.........
